New York · Nonprofit
UPPER MANHATTAN EMPOWERMENT ZONE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
UPPER MANHATTAN EMPOWERMENT ZONE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $160,000 to it, the largest being MERTZ GILMORE FOUNDATION ($150,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.4M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $160k
- Net assets
- $80M
What Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation does
Mission
To sustain the economic revitalization of all communities in upper manhattan through job creation, corporate alliances, strategic investments, and small business assistance.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To sustain the economic revitalization of all communities in upper manhattan empowerment zone through job creation, corporate alliances, strategic investments and small business assistance.
$4,214,071 spentof which $882,680 as grants$1,366,075 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,214,071.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $91M to $80M (−12%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 75% · 2018 87% · 2019 83% · 2020 66% · 2021 52% · 2022 84% · 2023 65% · 2024 26% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of UPPER MANHATTAN EMPOWERMENT ZONE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Blair M Duncan
CEO
Board chair
Joseph J Johnson Iii
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $50k → $110k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $472k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation). These are real filings, and they are not money UPPER MANHATTAN EMPOWERMENT ZONE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION raised.
From the IRS filings of UPPER MANHATTAN EMPOWERMENT ZONE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
UPPER MANHATTAN EMPOWERMENT ZONE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 91% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of UPPER MANHATTAN EMPOWERMENT ZONE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
UPPER MANHATTAN EMPOWERMENT ZONE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding UPPER MANHATTAN EMPOWERMENT ZONE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.2M on record.
- Department of the Treasury$3.2M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like UPPER MANHATTAN EMPOWERMENT ZONE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Business Resource and Investment Service Center Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UPPER MANHATTAN EMPOWERMENT ZONE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UPPER MANHATTAN EMPOWERMENT ZONE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
- UPPER MANHATTAN EMPOWERMENT ZONE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $160,000 to it, the largest being MERTZ GILMORE FOUNDATION ($150,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UPPER MANHATTAN EMPOWERMENT ZONE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $160,000 in grants to UPPER MANHATTAN EMPOWERMENT ZONE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UPPER MANHATTAN EMPOWERMENT ZONE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
- MERTZ GILMORE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UPPER MANHATTAN EMPOWERMENT ZONE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing